I am always looking for examples of good internal SBS layouts and space/group implementations. Since I assist other groups in my company (e.g. marketing, hr) use SBS to set up their spaces, it would be nice to learn how organizations have tackled similar issues. I find that most space administrators are not web design or information architect experts and they struggle to set up effective spaces.

But because our implementations are behind our firewalls, sadly I usually end up empty-handed.

What have you done to improve space setup/layout in your organizations? Do you have any ideas on how we can help each other out?

I'm always happy to share screenshots. There are many tools out there that capture the content of your browser. My preference is the "Screengrab" add-on in Firefox. It can copy the entire page, and not just what's visible in the window.

Obviously we should all be careful not to share screenshots containing confidential information, but there's plenty of spaces in my community that I can safely pull from.

We only use groups. Do you remember the exercise you did in your strategy session on designing your all content homepage? This is the exercise where you mapped your goals to key member calls to action and then used the calls to action to pick the widget/layout? For the group owners who do reach out for consulting we go through the same exercise for just their mini-community. I also have a whole start a community package that is a tweak of Gia's on-boarding package. Basically, I made it a self-service pak to walk through since many people want to create their group w/o having to reach out to anyone. It has slides that cover what Gia did on a whiteboard for us when we designed our site.

Sure I don't mind at all. It will look very familiar as it's very close to Gia's. The backup resource links won't work as they all go to our internal community, but I kept them in so you'd see the other types of materials.